FC6: library global symbol abuse

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 01:59:16PM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> 
> Also, regarding:
> 
> Clashes for /usr/lib/libodbcminiS.so.1.0.0:
>   with /usr/lib/libodbcdrvcfg2S.so.1.0.0 => ODBCINSTGetProperties
....
>   with /usr/lib/libesoobS.so.1.0.0 => ODBCINSTGetProperties
>   with /usr/lib/libodbcmyS.so.1.0.0 => ODBCINSTGetProperties
> 
> is it correct that all these libraries must only ever be used indirectly 
> via libodbc (which will dlopen them) - and no app may link directly 
> against them?  If so they can go on the whitelist, but they should not 
> really be in /usr/lib to start with; dlopen-able modules should go in 
> /usr/lib/<somedirectory>.

I filled a bug for .so in %_libdir, and raised that issue, but the
maintainer don't want to do the move.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203641

There is an issue of backward compatibility since the libraries .so are 
in config files. But the main issue seems to me to be that the maintainer
don't care much about those issues.

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Pat